X-Ray Audio: The Documentary
Overview
Cold War Leningrad: In a culture where the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the state, music lovers discovered an extraordinary alternative means of reproduction: they repurposed used x-ray film as the base for records of forbidden songs. Giving blood every week to earn enough money to buy a recording lathe, one bootlegger Rudy Fuchs cuts banned music onto such discarded x-rays to be sold on street corners by shady dealers. It was ultimate act of punk resistance, a two-fingered salute to the repressive regime that gave a generation of young Soviets access to forbidden Western and Russian music, an act for which Rudy and his fellow bootleggers would pay a heavy price.
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11/02/2016
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Original Soundtrack
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White Earth
Know Thyself
Preschool to Prison
Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988
Spuren der Eiszeit
Deep Sky
J’m’en va r’viendre
Les États-Unis d'Afrique
Rom - Weltstadt der Antike
Regenerative Energiequellen
Letter of Sanabria
Portrait of a Wind-up Maker
Circular
Children of Silence
A World Without Beethoven?
Walking in the Opposite Direction
Keep That Dream Burning
The Letter League
Set the Piano Stool on Fire
Under a Bridge